Mt. Edgecumbe High School's Radio Club has been named one of this year's Spirit of Youth award winners. The Anchorage-based organization annually recognizes about twenty youth age 12-19 for improving the quality of life in their communities or solving social problems.
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ANB president Nels Lawson, ANS president Victoria Canul-Dunne, and lifetime member Bertha Karras discuss this Saturday's lineup (2-16-13) of Elizabeth Peratrovich Day celebration activities. See the full schedule here.
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Sitka's Blue Lake a complicated 'game.' Assembly to solicit bids for $1.8 million sea walk. SAFV holds women's drum performance in honor of 'One Billion Rising.'
Staff in the municipal electric department outlined the scope of the Blue Lake Hydro expansion project for the Sitka Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday (2-13-13). The work, while dangerous and expensive, is also a complicated engineering puzzle that is much more than a paycheck for the people designing and building it.
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It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow and Sitkans Against Family Violence, or SAFV, is inviting people to a drum performance on Thursday. It’s part of V-Day, a worldwide call-to-action to stop violence against women and girls.
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Most of the tourism talk at Tuesday's Assembly meeting focused on the city’s Sea Walk project. Sitka has about $1.8 million to spend on the pathway from Crescent Harbor to the Sitka National Historical Park, and it's about to go looking for someone to build it.
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Staff at the Sitka Sound Science Center took this photo of a young elephant seal on a beach near Sitka on Tuesday afternoon. Elephant seals are not common in this part of Southeast Alaska.
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Robin Koutchak's resume has 20 years of Alaska law experience on it, including time in Barrow, where she was assistant municipal attorney, assistant attorney general and assistant district attorney. Currently, she's in private practice in Barrow.
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Koutchak accepts attorney job at $112,000/yr. Assembly approves 15-percent hike in electrical rates, among other energy decisions. Quarry-lease agreement with S&S trades rock for debt payments. SE utility managers work on regional collaboration. Rural communities look to broader energy solutions.
Sitka’s electric rates are going up effective July 1. The flat 15 percent increase for all customers will put residential energy charges between 9 and 18 cents per kilowatt hour, depending on usage.
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